Word: postcommunist
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...between the U.S. and China may be strained, but Clinton and Jiang chatted animatedly during the session. Boris Yeltsin was also in the front row (two places to the right of Clinton), standing to the left of France's new conservative President Jacques Chirac. A pair of paleocommunist and postcommunist leaders could be found in the third row from the front, where Fidel Castro (fifth from right), in a business suit rather than his customary fatigues, loomed over Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic to his right. In the fifth row, Yasser Arafat (just below the "50" banner) was placed...
...scratch most of the postcommunist world too, where the advent of market economies has been a decidedly mixed blessing for women. Female unemployment is up, female-supportive services like public child care are getting as scarce as public portraits of Stalin. In Poland women have lost their right to abortion. In Russia it's a fact of postcommunist economic life that an office job can include a responsibility to sleep with the boss...
Today Menoyo is back in the opposition, this time against the leadership of the Cuban-American community that cheered his arrival. In 1993 he formed Cambio Cubano, Cuban Change, a group dedicated to a peaceful transition to postcommunist rule in Cuba. For Menoyo that requires dialogue with Castro-or as exile hard-liners would put it, fraternizing with the enemy...
...past, John Paul has not hesitated to involve himself in Polish politics, albeit surreptitiously. His friend Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a Solidarity intellectual who was Poland's first postcommunist Prime Minister, this month told TIME something that church officials in the past frequently denied. After the communist regime imposed martial law in 1981, the Pope wrote letters of counsel to Solidarity activists interned by the communists; priests and bishops served as couriers because they were not subject to body searches. Said Mazowiecki: "Their robes carried more mail than many workers in our postal service...
...capitalism must move beyond such rudiments if Castro's regime is to survive. Even faithful party members believe the time for thoroughgoing change has come, though they fear the economic anarchy of postcommunist Eastern Europe. "It's a difficult moment," admits Manuel Gutierrez, who was born in 1959, the year of the revolution. "The system has much good and some bad. But things are changing. The young are taking over...